01-13-2010, 09:01 PM
Quote:if a person is expressing opinions on religion then I want to hear what he thinks about other religions, not just Christianity.But what if that person wasn't talking about religion in general?
Dawkins begins 'The God Delusion' by making it clear that the God he talks about is the Abrahamic concept of a personal god as the creator of everything. Not the God of Christianity alone, but the presumed deity that is central to Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Not the God of Fruitbats, because it's followers never claimed it created the universe.
As a side note, isn't it sad that the 3 most related religions also show the most conflict between it's followers? All because their difference in acknowledging later prophets resulted in a different set of 'holy scriptures' to dictate man's thoughts.
Abrahamic religions
"The three great faiths called Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were born of an event that each remembers as a moment in history, when the One True God appeared to an Iron Age sheik named Abram and bound him in a covenant forever. Abram is the later Abraham, the father of all believers and the linchpin of the faith, and indeed the theology, from which the three communities of that God's worshipers emerged. The history of monotheism had begun."